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Mount St. Helens

Fay Blackburn holds a photograph from her wedding to Reid Blackburn, a Columbian photographer who died while covering the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

Columbian photographer’s cameras in Space Needle time capsule

Fay Blackburn holds a photograph from her wedding to Reid Blackburn, a Columbian photographer who died while covering the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

September 22, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Life

A time capsule in the Seattle Space Needle to be opened in 2062 will include two cameras that were with Columbian photographer Reid Blackburn when he died in the May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens eruption. Read story

Next week, the Cascades Volcano Observatory will install three seismic and GPS stations on the west, north and east flanks of Mount Hood to improve the ability to detect the beginning signs of an eruption.

Three additional monitoring stations to be installed on Mount Hood

Next week, the Cascades Volcano Observatory will install three seismic and GPS stations on the west, north and east flanks of Mount Hood to improve the ability to detect the beginning signs of an eruption.

September 19, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

Three volcano monitoring stations are scheduled to be installed on Mount Hood next week in what the U.S. Geological Survey says will be a big step for protecting lives and property. Read story

Sarah Croston, assistant guide and educator at the Mount St. Helens Institute takes stock of her equipment while preparing to lead a hike to the Mount. St. Helens crater.

Working in Clark County: Sarah Croston, assistant guide, Mount St. Helens Institute

Sarah Croston, assistant guide and educator at the Mount St. Helens Institute takes stock of her equipment while preparing to lead a hike to the Mount. St. Helens crater.

September 2, 2019, 6:03am Business

The scene at the Mount St. Helens Institute around noon Aug. 23 was a bit of a frenzy. Read story

This photo that appeared in National Geographic World shows Allene Wodaege and Ron Ward with a group of 10 fifth-graders from Ridgefield during a 1983 into Mount St. Helens blast zone.

Journey to St. Helens blast zone recalled

This photo that appeared in National Geographic World shows Allene Wodaege and Ron Ward with a group of 10 fifth-graders from Ridgefield during a 1983 into Mount St. Helens blast zone.

May 18, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

One image is forever stamped on Allene Wodaege’s memory after journeying deep into Mount St. Helens’ blast zone more than three years following the volcano’s 1980 eruption. Read story

A view of the area, top right, where the Ascot Mining Company wants to do more exploratory drilling. This photo was taken in October 2011.

Group sues to prohibit Mount St. Helens’ drilling

A view of the area, top right, where the Ascot Mining Company wants to do more exploratory drilling. This photo was taken in October 2011.

April 9, 2019, 6:01am Clark County News

A conservation group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management over the agencies’ decision to allow exploratory drilling in the upper Green River Valley at Goat Mountain, near the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. Read story

Major volcanoes in the Cascade Range.

Geologists take on mysteries of volcanoes in Cascade Range

Major volcanoes in the Cascade Range.

March 29, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

There are roughly 20 major volcanoes in the Cascade Range, and while scientists might know about them individually, they don’t know as much about why volcanoes in a chain might vary in composition, their eruption histories or how they erupt. Read story

Seth Moran, scientist-in-charge at the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory, from left, Ray Yurkewycz, executive director of the Mount St. Helens Institute, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Ernie Schnabler, director of emergency management with the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, and Dan Douthit, public information officer for the Portland Bureau of Emergency Communications, talk about the importance of volcano monitoring prior to a tour at the CVO on Thursday morning.

Sen. Cantwell praises volcano resources

Seth Moran, scientist-in-charge at the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory, from left, Ray Yurkewycz, executive director of the Mount St. Helens Institute, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Ernie Schnabler, director of emergency management with the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, and Dan Douthit, public information officer for the Portland Bureau of Emergency Communications, talk about the importance of volcano monitoring prior to a tour at the CVO on Thursday morning.

March 21, 2019, 7:36pm Clark County News

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., addressed a new law that will dedicate more resources to volcano monitoring during a Thursday visit to the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver. Read story

Mount St. Helens as seen from the camp chapel at Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway in Amboy in July.

Public-lands bill gives boost to volcano warning, monitoring systems

Mount St. Helens as seen from the camp chapel at Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway in Amboy in July.

February 12, 2019, 10:37pm Clark County News

The wide-ranging Natural Resources Management Act, co-sponsored by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and which passed Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, includes a provision to improve volcano early warning and monitoring systems. Read story

A view of the area, top right, where the Ascot Mining Company wants to do more exploratory drilling above the Green River and on the border of the Mt. St Helens National Volcanic Monument near Randle in 2011.

BLM OKs exploratory mining near Mount St. Helens

A view of the area, top right, where the Ascot Mining Company wants to do more exploratory drilling above the Green River and on the border of the Mt. St Helens National Volcanic Monument near Randle in 2011.

December 3, 2018, 4:02pm Clark County News

The federal Bureau of Land Management said Monday it found proposed exploratory mining northeast of Mt. St. Helens would present no significant environmental impact, bringing mining company Ascot USA, Inc., a step closer to beginning prospecting in the area. Read story

Sediment backs up behind the dam as water flows over the spillway in the bottom left-hand corner of the photo. The Army Corps of Engineers wants to raise the spillway up to 23 feet in future years. (Adam Mosbrucker/U.S.

Fight over Mount St. Helens silt in Cowlitz River will continue

Sediment backs up behind the dam as water flows over the spillway in the bottom left-hand corner of the photo. The Army Corps of Engineers wants to raise the spillway up to 23 feet in future years. (Adam Mosbrucker/U.S.

November 14, 2018, 6:05am Clark County News

For the first time, federal engineers are acknowledging that they will need to battle Mount St. Helens sediment flow into the Cowlitz River into the middle of the 21st century. Read story